New Product Development

New Product Development (NPD) for any organization is an exciting yet challenging task. While the prospect of new software product development opens the doors to future business development and an additional source of revenue, it also involves technical, marketing, and financial risks. Most of the decisions taken in this phase are with a degree of uncertainty and are therefore risky.

In our consulting work with clients across the globe, we’ve been asked umpteen number of times about the best practices in Project Management. At every level of the management hierarchy, individuals want to know the key practices for project success. What’s the best Project management mantra? The sure shot winning formula.

The pace at which, the world turns over today demands a culture of change and innovation on a day-to-day basis. Innovation is the key to catch up, teamed with the ability to quickly respond to emerging threats. The time in which we need to respond however continues to decrease. From an information technology perspective, this suggests that we need to be able to make software changes more rapidly with quality than ever before. However, many programs devote more than 50 percent of the schedule to testing!

You have probably heard a lot about big data. With the advent of the Internet, the explosion of electronic smart devices with superior computational power, almost every process in our world now uses some kind of software, to churn out huge amounts of data every minute.

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The main aim of this blog is to show the content of an .rtf file on the browser window. Usually, when trying to open an .rtf file in the browser, it is downloaded instead of being displayed. This is because the browsers cannot reliably display RTF content. In order to overcome this problem, we came up with a solution which involves converting the contents of an .rtf file into HTML and then rendering it on the browser window.

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Sometimes things vary from environment to environment. Like, we wear a tie to the office but try not to elsewhere. Similarly in Node.js, you might want configuration settings to change per environment. Some of these settings include IP address, port number, database configurations etc., that change from the development to production environment. The recommended approach for changing your app’s environment is by using the NODE_ENV environment variable.

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In this era of rapidly changing technology, mobile devices have made their way into all spheres of an individual’s life. Their role in daily life has been increasing tremendously and they are being used for much more than the basic purpose of communication. Android has emerged into the mobile world with an intention to develop a mobile platform OS. It has a tremendous potential in developing smart phones which are aware of its owner’s location and preferences.